Category: television

After a rather uncomfortable week stuck in snowy Buffalo, Interpol’s relentless global touring in support of ‘El Pintor’ continues this week with 3 sold out shows at NYC’s Terminal Five starting tonight (Hundred Waters support). In addition, Interpol will be making their first appearance on NBC’s “Late Night With Seth Meyers”, tonight at 12:35pm (eastern time). Seth’s other guests this evening are John Goodman and Aasif Mandovi.

Perfume Genius‘ U.S. network television debut happens tonight on CBS’ “The Late Show With David Letterman” (11:35 pm eastern, 10:35pm central). Dave’s other guest tonight is NBC news anchor Brian Williams, and if you think a guy in that position being funny is a little incongruous, you’re never heard David Brinkley’s unreleased Laff Records LP. That aside, we’re pretty sure this is going to be one of those TV moments you’ll feel like a real dope for missing (and not simply the part where Brian Williams tries to kick Dave in the headt).

The New Pornographers will be appearing on TBS’ “Conan” this evening (11pm eastern, 10pm central). Mr. O’Brien (as he’s known to people who aren’t his friends or associates) will also welcome guests Anthony Anderson (SO GOOD IN THE FIRST “BARBERSHOP”, AKA “BARBERSHOP ONE : THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD”) and Jon Lovitz (also, quite good in “Happiness”, aka The Second Greatest Story Ever Told, though perhaps not as good as Mr. Anderson in “Barbershop”, and maybe a little too creepy in this context, so never mind). Prior to Friday night’s show at the Wiltern, The New Pornographers will be appearing on KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic” at 2:15 pm eastern / 11:15pm pacific time.

While we’re big believers in second acts in American life, you’re not joining the band, Dave.

Interpol have added a third show at NYC’s Terminal Five, November 25. They’ve also added a second show at Philadelphia’s Union Transfer, December 1. Tickets for both shows are available today at noon eastern via interpolnyc.com.

The eagerly awaited 5th album from Interpol, ‘El Pintor’ is available everywhere starting today. Daniel, Paul and Sam conclude an exhaustive week of NYC promo with an appearance tonight on CBS’ “The Late Show With David Letterman” (11:35 eastern, 10:35 central) (Dave’s other guests tonight are Michael Strahan and Sir Richard Branson), and they’ll be signing copies of ‘El Pintor’ at West 4th Street’s Other Music at 5pm, Wednesday. Other Music will have the limited white vinyl edition, but if you’d like to guarantee entry, you can bring a receipt from OM if you’ve purchased the album from them today (Tuesday).

Let’s get the gloating out of the way first and foremost : congratulations to The New Pornographers on ‘Brill Bruisers’ entering next week’s US Billboard Album Chart at #13 ; that’s the highest charting album in the band’s career. There’s no time for victory laps, however, otherwise they’d be way too disheveled for tonight’s appearance on CBS’ “The Late Show With David Letterman” (11:35 eastern, 10:35 central). Dave’s other guests tonight are Kristen Wiig and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).

order ‘Brill Bruisers’ from the following :The Matador Store : (a limited edition multi-colored, paint splattered version of the LP is available through the Matador and New Pornographers webstores. Receive a 3D poster and 3D glasses while supplies last)New Pornos StoreiTunesAmazonGoogle

EMA’s national TV debut happens tonight on CBS’ “The Late Show With David Letterman” (11:35 pm Eastern, 10:35pm central). Dave’s other guests tonight are Howie Handel and Rachel Maddow, and i’m hopeful someone in our PR dept. can get my St. Elsewhere Original Cast Album signed (preferably by Maddow).

During a recent visit to Austin, TX while performing the live score to Sam Green’s “The Love Song Of R. Buckminster Fuller”, Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley visited the studios of KLRU for an extended chat with “Overheard” host Evan Smith. In terms of prestige, this is considerably more exciting than a booking on the Bethanny Frankel show. In terms of loud audience participation and distasteful bullying, it ranks somewhere below Wally George’s “Hot Seat”. You stream the interview here.

Heads up — the Jicks will be performing this afternoon at 2pm (eastern) on WNYC’s “Soundcheck” , which you can hear all over the globe at WNYC.org. In addition, here’s Monday night’s performance of “Houston Hades”, from “The Late Show With David Letterman”. And if you’re thinking this entire campaign was an awful lot of work just so we could get Letterman to say “jagbag” on TV, well, you’re not wrong.

(photo culled from Food Is The New Rock, where you can hear Joanna, Stephen and Mike discussing, y’know, food)

Barring some kind of major miracle (ie. SM knocking out a new album in the next 5 months or Colbert getting cold feet), tonight (Monday, May 19) will most likely mark Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks’ final appearance on “The Late Show With David Letterman”, an occasion that ranks somewhere between Craig Ferguson’s final show and the David Letterman’s final appearance on “The Late Show With David Letterman” in terms of historical significance.

We’re told the Jicks will be performing “Houston Hades” off ‘Wigout At Jagbags’, but given the show isn’t being taped until later today, reporting this is just a tad premature. LET THE CBS CENSORS DO THEIR JOBS, that’s what I always say in these situations. They don’t show up at our place of work and tell us which critically acclaimed, commercially underwhelming records to release, nor should we poke around the Ed Sullivan Theater trying to tell them that “kids grow up really fast nowadays” and “the whole world’s a fucking sewer besides”.

It’s all happening at 11:35 eastern time, by the way, or shortly after animal trainer Jack Hanna subdues a brutish creature from either soiling or maiming the host. But enough about Dave’s old stalker — enjoy the show everybody!

(we’re very hopeful the entire band will be in focus when they’re on national television)

You might recall a few months ago a wide-ranging conversation Marc Maron had with Josh Homme — if not, you can find it here. Either way, on tomorrow’s edition of Marc’s WTF, his featured guest is Stephen Malkmus. Good thing they’ll be getting into some intense subject matter as the latter is unlikely to receive any couch time when the Jicks appear on CBS’ “The Late Show With David Letterman” on Monday, May 19 (see how I slipped that in there?)

If you are at the festival, but sure to catch Queens of the Stone Age tomorrow, April 19th, at 9:35pm PST on the Coachella Stage and DARKSIDE in the aptly-named Gobi tent after at 10:50pm PST. If you are anywhere but Indio this weekend, you can watch many performances (including QOTSA) on AXS TV here (please check local listings) or watch it on your computer at AXS.tv.

Tonight on HBO (or as people older than dirt used to call it, “Home Box Office”, Mike Judge’s newest TV creation, the highly touted “Silicon Valley” premieres. Chavez guitarist Clay Tarver (above, far right) is one of the show’s writers and weirdly enough, episode one features (drum roll)… THE MUSIC OF CHAVEZ.

Though we’re not often in the habit of encouraging you to watch major awards shows here at Matador Records & Filmworks, we must make a rare exception in the case of this Sunday evening’s 2014 Grammy Awards on CBS. As mentioned previously, Queens of the Stone Age are up for 3 Grammys this year, having earned nominations for Best Rock Album (‘…Like Clockwork’), Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, and Best Rock Performance (“My God Is The Sun”). On top of that QOTSA will be making their Grammy telecast debut during the program’s grand finale, performing alongside fellow nominees / compatriots Nine Inch Nails, Dave Grohl and Lindsey Buckingham.

The 6th album of studio mastery from Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, the not-at-all Dag Nasty baiting ‘Wigout At Jagbags’ is in finer record stores and is available from all better digital retailers today. (ALSO AVAILABLE DIRECT FROM US).